Abstract

VAN STADEN, W et al. Race in health research: Considerations for researchers and research ethics committees. SAJBL [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.1, pp.9-12. ISSN 1999-7639.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/sajbl.2023.v16i1.440.

This article provides ethical guidance on using race in health research as a variable or in defining the study population. To this end, a plain, non-exhaustive checklist is provided for researchers and research ethics committees, preceded by a brief introduction on the need for justification when using race as a variable or in defining a study population, the problem of exoticism, that distinctions pertain between race, ethnicity and ancestry, the problematic naming of races, and that race does not serve well as a presumed biological construct in genetic research.

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